The Will to Blog and Peanut Sauce

wow... is that been how long since i actually wrote something on my blog.... well the last few dont count because its just a slide of my recent assignments and a titter-tatter on one of my paper creations ....

hmmmmmmm where do i start.... .... Summer is upon us all... ok i guess it doesnt apply to us in malaysia but it does so to many of our friends over the seas who are studying .... so most were down for their holidays.... but if youre studying in the land down under then u'd be down for winter. Ok now im confused ....where am i going with this... oh right... friends ...down for the holidays... yeah so it was catch up time .... The two D'Rozario sisters, both studying on opposite corners of the world were back after a long long time apart... 2 years i think... so we had a small do at our place... i tell you those two ah so sweet lah... such loving sisters.... really missed veron's facial expressions too lah...kekeke so funny one... we where supposed to watch a movie on the telly but we landed up just chatting the night away....

Its started off all sane and all,... but then it all went insane after that...

Veron won the body arching competition but.......... donovan won the funny face competition...

...others were getting hungry.........

Next was Miss Karen...i mean Dr Karen whom i also havent seen in two years..... ah miss giggles is still the same but im sure now she would be the only one in the room who cld save me if i had a paper cut.... maybe its just me but its funny how we only realize how much we miss people when their back.....

We took an impromptu ride to PD because Karen hadnt seen the beach for yonks.... Been a long time since i went on a spur of the moment long drive...... it was just like old times when G and myself would hop into our cars and take a drive to wherever with whom ever who wanted to follow us.... if you ever saw a white kancil and a mustard yellow vw beetle driving along a lonely road... well that would have been us....

We reached there in time for dinner where we settle in to eat at a place called El Rancho.... it was a nice place more so for its ambiance.... u can even hear the sea even thought its across the road.

managed to catch up with a few rounds of pool....

Check out the two chinese dudes at the head of the table.....

Awe..... this little fiat 500 has seen better days........

taking a walk on the beach ........ its hard to hold a camera still for 30 seconds to take this shot....

wokay... time to go home......... try not to get sand in the car yeah....


ok i wrote the above like almost a month ago.... still havent had the mood to write .... and my internet line is still like shit.... calling the Streamyx, Telekom Malaysia help line is like Bruce Banners short cut to turning into the HULK if he ever had trouble doing so....

Customer Service in Malaysia.... is one of a kind lah..... out of the six times i called in a span of one and a half months only once did i get someone who made sense and i had spent the lease amount of time explaning my problem with him........ but it doesnt help when got him on my very first call to Streamyx........sigh!!! .... every other call just got worst and worst.... I am thinking of going to the counter get it solved .... hopefully my blood pressure wont be affected this time...

Shanti is back for three weeks...... and she insisted on good Sea Food and Satay... so we headed to South Pacific for dinner... I must say i enjoyed the dinner too... They serve up some nice prawns and the Satay was pretty good too ...Although it was a bit strange that they dont serve it with the peanut sauce.... When asked they said that it is marinated with the sauce..... Interesting... although it would have been nice to dip it in more peanut sauce...

Dono bought a new board game, Betrayal at House on the Hill....yes thats what its really called.. anyway, Dono and Shanti came over and we had a game….. it was interesting but complicated .... even thought i was sleepy ..I still enjoyed myself.... well maybe because its something different from Scene It, Risk & Monopoly....

Caught a number of movies these couple of MOvies .... like Hellboy 2 and Dark Knight.... the latter being for me the best movie of 2008... oh well im gettinig sleepy.... i better just click Publish before i forget and another week just passes by......... nite..

Poovarasi & Gobinathan Wedding Dinner 08Jun08

a cute couple celebrating their union with friends and family. congrats to both of you! for enquiries and bookings email me at pixelatedmo@gmail.com


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Paper Clutch Handbag

Here is the custom made birthday card i made for Melissa. She loves handbags so i thought i'd make a clutch handbag out of paper which will open to reveal birthday wishes and notes inside, signed by all her friends. Its just folded paper block laminated with gold textured wrapping paper. The inside i cut and pasted printed card which i got from the craft shop.... Took me a few attempts and ideas to figure out how to keep the bag closed. in the end i used leftovers to make a button.


The bag (ok ok its a glorified box).......

Release the button....

.... and open.... I glued the card inside after everyone had signed it.

Looks like plastic

Even when the trailer started showing i was very very suspicious about Indy 4. After what George did to Star Wars 1, 2 & 3 i was thinking the worst but since Steven Spielberg was also on board i though maybe just maybe George cant ruin it.... i was wrong... its worst then i thought....... from scene to scene it was just getting worst and worst..... ok stop reading if you havent watched it yet.... I was so worried about George Lucas that i didnt see it coming..... Spielberg had infused his obsession with aliens into this movie.... why... why whyyyy!!!..lah!!

The characters were forgettable and seemed like a waste of talent, while the reuse of familiar script from past Indy movies were just lost in this pointless movie..... and didnt those crytal sculls look more like plastic......... its a very sad 3/10...... or shall i give it 1/10 just for pissing me off.....

They better not piss me off again because..... you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!!!........ well i hope im wearing my stretchy pants if that happens..... hmmm ok ok lets start with Hulk 2.... never liked the first one so as usual i thought the worst this time around... but Edward Norton was taking the lead this time and i like his work... actually he did do a good job with Hulk 2 and it was green for go from the get-go... non stop action back to back and i was like woah.....cool!! then half way thru the movie i think it lost steam.... and i still think they didnt show HULK's full potential as the most unstoppable force in the MARVEL universe.... oh well.... i guess they are just saving it for next time....i hope......and as like Ironman... this movie hints of an Avengers spin off. The Incredible HULK is 6/10 for me...........

ok before you go saying im a closet girly movie watcher'.... let me just say i went out with my wife for a day of shopping, dinner and a movie. Wife wanted to watch the movie because of Patrick 'McDreamy' Demsey...... to be honest i dont see him as McDreamy.... i see him as 'Jimbo', that dude that let that Ibola infected monkey go free in the movie Outbreak...... Anyway i went to go and check out Michelle Monaghan .... but for some reason she looked a little strange... dont know how to explain.... just weird looking....... well if you're waiting for a rating... all i can say is My Best Friends Wedding was better...... No! im not a closet girly movie watcher'

I dont know why i bother watching his movies lah.... i hated the first one and watchin it a second time only turned me into the HULK.... so why ...why did i go watch National Treasure 2......
0/10 for all his movies from now on....nuff said....

Jacinta & Christi Wedding 18May08

a lovely wedding with a lovely couple.....

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BUGgers do Cyberjaya

Woah... the BUGgers club is picking up well.... and our forum is lively... so if you know anyone who has a classic volkswagen be it a beetle, Ghia, Kombi, Rabbit, Thing or has a passion on them, get them to join us to learn and share knowledge on the 'Peoples Wagen'.. On behalve of our founder Shawn, i wld like to welcome you to our forum Volksriders

Below is a slide of our 5th G2G held in Cyberjaya last month....

Mel's Burpday

It was Mel's B'day a week ago and her family threw her a BBQ party. A number of friends who are studying abroad had come down.... so it was also a good opportunity to meet up with everyone... APM got together and bought her a diamond necklace and i made a custom Birthday card in a shape of a clutch handbag.

Jacinta & Christi Registration 10May08

I finally got together a few (less then 100) photos of Jacinta's & Christi's Legal Registration at SFX Church last month. Next i need to get a few of her wedding photos together ....

Sorry Cinta ;P

Meera & Gopal Wedding 23Mar08

The Petrol Conundrum

hmmm... where do i start.... since everyones talking about the fuel hike... mayb i will just start there then....

Now first up i want you all to know that i am all for the abolishment of government subsidized petrol which according to 'them' is about RM56 billion... now if you abolish this then maybe the money saved can be reverted to develop a world class public transport infrastructure... no not the 'after thought' system that we see being done now... i mean a total rethink and MEGA infrastructure for public transport be developed, be it proper walk ways, cycling paths, bus, MRT, LRT, otherRT's ....subways, byways, proper overhead bridges...... a person must be able to walk at least a 10KM radius without any kind of stupid obstacles....like the lack of a proper crossing....

Maybe something like Europe... why go far... how about something like Singapore.... yes i might make fun of them... sometimes i dont even know why ...other times it even seems appropriate but GOD!!! you can walk the whole Island without problems... why is that they can get it right while we are still in the dark about public transport????

So yeah... i say abolish it... completely... cos even now its still subsidized by 30sens... and if you have a smaller CC car you get a rebate every year...... I say abolish it!!!!!!!!!.... then maybe then, car prices will come down drastically and we will not have issues on AP... or missed used import taxes... over or under estimates on value for personal profit and so on and so forth...

Damn!!....i need some Chocolate Crispy's.........

On the very day the announcement of the increased petrol price went out... the skies opened up and poured in protest... or was it just tears of laughter.... Well it was truly a serious thunderstorm which was quite scary....a flash of light and next thing i know... the main switch in my hse goes off and i was in darkness... only the laptop screen illuminated the room as im editing some photos.... i move apart the curtains to get some light in but decide not too when flashes upon flashes of lightning streak across the sky while cracks of thunder follow almost immediately.....

I decide to leave the mains off too while i continue to edit the pixs... Rose calls to say shes stuck in jam and as i look out at the LDP i can see that nobody is getting home fast... it was at a standstill... same as the NPE... my sister who was heading into bangsar also was stuck... but then i realize ...maybe the jam wasnt because of the rain... maybe it was because everyones jamming the petrol stations trying to fill up on petrol before..... well maybe it was both.... i am certain that not everyone was so kiosu to go out in rush hour jam to get petrol.... those who did had selfishly caused a jam so bad it lasted till almost midnite ... thats when the new price of RM2.70 starts... i say selfishly because im sure some off you had seen that they were hogging the roads and junctions that lead into petrol stations causing others to get stuck in unwanted jams... people who just wanted to get home after a long day at work... those who weren't kiasu enought to want to fill up and save maybe RM40 for a full tank of petrol (for americans or think they are americans, petrol means gas or gasoline) ... and may i ask how much of petrol was wasted while waiting in your cars stuck in jam??? if you where stuck in an hour of jam thats almost RM20 gone......not enuff you waste so much of petrol ... you make other non kiasu people waste petrol too by getting everyone stuck in jam...

Well i hope you are proud... so proud that you saved RM40... oh wait you used RM20 of petrol being stuck in jam... so yeah... i hope you are proud that you saved RM20 :P

ok lah ok lah.... i will stop rambling :P

mo

Tioman 08

Man... it has been a hectic and fast week.... last friday my cousin got married... congrats bro..!! then on Saturday i documented a fellow blogger, Jacintha's wedding . We met on
Sabrina's blog. Then the next day the vw buggers had a fun drive to PD..... well other then that i also felt the tremor last monday at around 10.40pm... looked at rose and said "woah, did u feel that?" rose just had this 'poor mo... long hard weekend!' look.....

well i guess all that in my next post......

ANyway i wrote the following on tioman a week ago but only just had the time to put in a few photos...

Although it was a 5 hour drive, it felt very quick and was a surprisingly pleasant drive to Mersing with only one stop at Kluang for breakfast. We set out in two cars about 5.30am without any delays... surprisingly... :)

We reached Kluang about 8am and G took us to a famous cafe which was located next to the train station but it was closed on that day... so we took a drive around Kluang town and settled in a corner shop which had a variety of chinese and Indian food... the roti canai wasnt that good but the rest of the food especially the ' yong tou foo' was very nice... and the surrounding post war buildings set a nice appeal to the whole place...

The road got interesting after we passed the Palm Oil Factory.... very twisting with very badly maintained.... the patch work tarring along the sides of the road keep us in the middle of it... so we seriously needed to look out for on coming traffic.... but I guess only G and I can appreciate it... so while G and I were having fun with the driving, some were gritting their teeth at the corners but most of them were sleeping....... sleeping!!

As we entered Mersing, it was apparent that the whole world was there....

(foot note: interesting fact; Mersing is about 360km from home, thats like driving to the Penang Bridge toll gate at, but we used less petrol to get to Mersing... mayb bcos of the hilly terrain on the way to Penang)

........the jetty ofcos was packed with people from all over the world..... We only cld get tickets for the 2.30pm ferry but the resort lady told us if we waited at the counter they wld inform us if there is place on the boat... So as G and I parked the cars the others got the bags out and waited at the jetty.....

it was absolute caos at the jetty .... talk about dissorganised... and ofcos all this is made even more worse by idiotic people who see the incompetence as an oppotunity to get on an earlier ferry to Tioman ,..... and the ferry officials are either really dumb or just too lazy to be bothered about it...... i was really getting sick of watching this circus... felt like shouting at them to get their act together......

But instead,... i had a drink at a bar called PORT which was near the jetty... as time passed by rather quickly, it was time then to wait for our ferry..... we started queuing up ...but as the ferry docked ...suddenly everyone was forming their own line into the entrance... what the FU^K !!!!!!!..... caos... arrgggghhh... fu>king animals lah!!!... and when we finally got thru the gates ...one guy took my ticket, tore the stub and gave it back to me, then another guy shoved a laminated piece of paper with numbers on it and said "Boarding Pass".... then about 3 meters away another guy asked for my boarding pass... so i gave it to him..... all this in less then 15 seconds after stumbling out of the gate....

Rose was ahead of me in the line. When she managed to get through ...she didnt get a boarding pass... so the third guy who is collecting the boarding pass asked her to go back all of 10 feet (bout 3 meters) to get one... if not he wont let her pass..... !!???!!!!! WHAT THE FUKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what was the point of the stupid damn boarding pass.... pls someone tell me!!!!!.....

Finally we were all in the ferry..... but I really wonder how many people on it actually had tickets for the 2.30pm ferry .... and i seriously hope that everyone who were scheduled for this ferry managed to get on... sigh!!

So yeah we were finally on our way to Tioman.... and thats when i knocked out and slept thru the 2 hour trip to the Island.....woke up just as we reached Tioman.... it was a welcomed sight after almost 7 hours of travelling and 4 hours of waiting.... PANUBA INN RESORT here we come...yeah!! yeah!!..... time to kick back and relax........

By the time we checked-in and unpacked and bath, it was already time for dinner. The food at panuba was nothing to shout about but their desserts were decent..... beer was cheap, i guess because Tioman is duty free.

After dinner we bummed on the beach for awhile before heading back to our rooms for a round of UNO!!!!!!! dose tres.......... chakotay!!!!!!!!!!

The next morning at breakfast i was... i mean ....we were totally disappointed to find the buffet breakfast which comes with the room consisted of fried mee hoo (2nd day was fried mee and 3rd day fried Kuey Teow) and plain bread of which u can toast ... oh and free flow of coffee, tea and yellow colour water which is supposed to be juice..... !!?? and thats it.... everything else on the breakfast menu you will need to order and pay for it separately...... so every morning i ordered scrambled eggs.... with toast ofcos and coffee... pleasant breakfast with the sound of the waves crashing on the shore.... hmmmm nice....

Well after breafast we planned to take a boat ride to Tekek Town (where the berjaya airport is and all the duty free shops).... We stocked up on liquor and cheap beer.... Suprisingly there was hardly any kind of chocolates.... there was only one shop which had chocolates but it was quite sad... actually the duty free shops in Tioman are a far cry from the ones in Langkawi. After lunch and more liquor purchasing, we made our way back to Panuba .... spent the rest of the evening snorkeling and teaching Rema and Saro how to snorkel since it was their first time ever. Even Rose tried snorkeling but got too scared and st....

The next day only G, Rema and Saro and myself took the snorkeling trip to Coral Island, Monkey Beach and a lunch stop over at Salang which was on the northern tip of Tioman. Coral Island is still as beautiful as the last time i visited 4 or 5 years ago.... but i still dont get why the boats are still allowed to be driven (u drive a boat ah is that correct) over the corals... hmmmmm

Crystal clear waters..... myriad of fishes and coral.... sigh.... it was heaven.... but it was really really hot... the sun was unbearable.... but im sure the mat sallehs all loved it....... Food in Salang wasnt that great but believe me... if you really want to 'cuci mata' (wash your eyes) this is surely the place... for men and women.... wink wink....

Once we got back to Panuba we found that the rest were lazing on the beach and some were swimming and so I joined them to snorkel some more....... i even managed to teach Rose how to snorkel...... finally...... yeah!!

After dinner i was a goner... while the others played cards... woke up the next day and realized it was going home time.... :( we managed to catch an earlier ferry back to mersing....

Well... here are some sunsets i captured in tioman... Sab these are for you...

Check out the slide show or click on the picasa sign to go to my tioman album...

mo

Ironman's Italian Connection in Germany

Went to watch Ironman last saturday at the Curve. We only managed to get tickets for the late night show so we decided to go have dinner at the German Bierhous.... naturally we got Paulana beer (oh, make sure you ask for the drinks menu... they seem to have more then whats listed on the main menu) but ...well, as usual i cldnt decide on what to eat... and i wasnt too keen on anything on the menu... interestingly they had two or three Italian dishes too.... So i ordered the Cabonara .... strange but true... and i must say it was the best Cabonara pasta i have eaten... ... then i tried a little bit of everyone's dishes and i wasnt too impress though......

well after our expensive dinner it was onward to watch Ironman... heard alot of good things about the movie and i must say they were all justified..... it was very well done... beautifully played and the under rated Robert Downey Jr, was perfect as Tony Stark.... Hope you all waited for the bit after the credits... its just a taste of whats to come... but Samuel L Jackson... hmmm lately his been in sucky rolls and lame movies.....well we just need to wait and see. Hey u know what...., in the middle of the movie i hope you all got the hint of War Machine... but i guess that was more for comic fans... google it if you want... IRONMAN 9/10

mo

... im still here...

... yes, i still have been blogging... its just that i have been blogging on my 65vwbeetle blog .... been slowly dismantling my vw engine... I also met up with a few members of the BUGgers club as we had our 4th gathering this time held in Klang... managed to get alot of info on the vw engine.... and of cos lots of photos.

We also when for Cat's birthday party.... that was fun... it had a retro rock theme.... dont ask me what that means... i didnt know what to wear... so i ripped the sleeves off an old shirt and slapped on some jeans...

Ofcos.... a party isnt complete without a few rounds of TABOO..... we even had a few rounds of charades..... My team lost terribly in Taboo but we blew away the other team with Charades...

ANyway i just got back from Tioman last Sunday.... more on that in my next post...

mo

Gold Coast, Bagan Lalang?

Did you know that Bagan Lalang is now called Goldcoast????... sheesh!!! how original wan......

Anyway a bunch of us vw beetle owners and a few other classic car owners took a drive to Bagan Lalang last Sunday.... oh wait do you guys even know where Bagan Lalang is? :) Well, if you dont,.. it is a coastal area just after Sepang Town.... Dont know where Sepang is? ... You know F1 Sepang Circuit right?...... aaaaaa thats right! its some what a whiles way from there...

It was such a hot day... but of cos it rained like nobodies business later in the evening... luckily i was already back home by then....

i have visited Bagan Lalang almost a decade ago.... and boy has it changed.... it used to be a nice quiet place .... the beach wasnt that great but broad ...and the water was not too nice either.... but it was a great place for a picnic...... there was a restaurant there which was famous for its 'Ikan Bakar' (Grilled Fish) and the sea food wasnt bad either....

So yeah ... now ...almost ten years later.... they are calling it Goldcoast.... and they are building a stretch of water villas on stilts...... there goes the neighbourhood lah.... the place was packed with visitors .... the roads are alot better now but its jammed with cars... maybe it was packed because it was a sunday...... there are alot of new stalls and food courts along the stretch.... but the food really sucked!!! this is according to others lah because my food never came... but somehow i wasnt to hungry even thought i didnt have breakfast either... .... .... sigh!!! it was sad lah... i really hope this place is not ruined further by stupid humans who only know how to leave rubbish wherever they go......

I only noticed that plastic bottle after view this on the screen...sheesh!!

The piling being laid out for the Palm Tree Resort.... sigh!!

There was something serene but disturbing about watching this kite fly.... i cant seem to pin point it........ but it sure did remained me of someone........ Fi.... this one's for you....

an illustration of the The Gold Coast Palm Tree Resort once its completed.... hmmmm doesnt look like that Dubai thing right.....

below is a slideshow of the BUGgers & AMC club drive to Bagan Lalang.......

ZOOM

Bren just got himself an entry level SLR (Nikon D40) and since he is on a break from class we went out for a photohunt at the parks in TTDI.....

It was also the most shots i had taken with the 70-300mm zoom lense .... got many good shots with it... Bren pretty much had the zoom lense on (thats him on the left with it).... thing is you really really need to keep a steady hand while using it....





To those who are using a compact camera, 300mm is about 10x zoom...

Here are some of my favourite shots taken that day with this lense....






Here's a shot bren took... this little fellow sure runs fast...

Lukeisha's Baptism 19Jan08

Arent baby mittens so adorable!!??!!...Was going through some old pictures and found a few of a baptism i did for my friend's baby.

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Lucky to get some Sunshine on the 3:10 to Yuma

At last a good western... i havent seen a good western since Tomstone and Unforgiven ... 3:10 to Yuma was interesting and it kept me on my toes but glued to my seat. The cast, all of them...were excellent in their roles... 7.5/10 for me... It was well made



Talking about well made... Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind was well made.... I felt that The Idea of the movie (Story) was very well filmed... simple yet complexed... just like life.... and luck has nothing to do about it... 7/10



You know, i really loved the new James Bond movie Casino Royal ... it was an excellent movie actually... but there was one thing i didnt like about it and it is how they filmed the main poker game in the movie... i didnt have a sense of the game... of cos u could say the game was not the main focus.... hmmm but i think it shld have been a little bit more meaningful .... There are good movies which show poker in its best form... one of the best was Maverick ... but last year i did watch Lucky You, a poker movie with a romantic twist... it was pretty much formula filming but bit different.... good for a Saturday afternoon tv viewing... but somewhere in the middle it was a abit of a tug of war between romantic movie and poker rookie coming of age movie.... but good anyway 5.5/10





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Poovarasi & Gobinathan 09 Mar 08

Hindu ceremonies seem to be filled with vibrant colour. That's one of the many things that makes it so engaging. For bookings or enquires please email me at geraldmc8@hotmail.com or pixelatedmo@gmail.com

Mo